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- From: rudi@acs.bu.edu (Kevin Ruderman)
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- Subject: Re: Getting xdm to update /etc/utmp
- Keywords: xdm xterm /etc/utmp /var/adm/wtmp
- Message-ID: <102834@bu.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 21:44:11 GMT
- References: <1egn9lINNknd@agate.berkeley.edu> <By0uA9.57o@math.uwaterloo.ca>
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- In article <By0uA9.57o@math.uwaterloo.ca>, mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF]) writes:
- |> jdb@ocf.berkeley.edu (Justin D. Bukowski) writes:
- |> >We are running xdm on our RISC/6000 with a couple of X-stations.
- |> >We've noticed that logging in at the xdm login screen doesn't result
- |> >in an entry in /etc/utmp. This is the file used by who and finger
- |> >to get user login status. An rlogin does update properly, though.
- |>
- |> xdm isn't supposed to do it - xterm is. You need to have compiled xterm
- |> with the right options and #defines and stuff, and you need to make sure
- |> the utmpInhibit resource is "off" and you're not using -ut on the xterm
- |> command line.
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- If you have done this I would be happy to get the exact options used. I tried
- to get the options right but ran into options that broke the source. Fixed
- the source, tried to "teach" it how to do some things it had missed but still
- had problems. Output was being redirected to the wrong ttys. I had corrupted
- utmp somehow. It's a long messy job and I'll discuss it with anyone who cares.
- Gotta run for now.
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- |> Stock xterm with AIX has this disabled; stock aixterm works OK.
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- Aixterm does miss one this, it does not fill in the ut_host field.
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- Rudi
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